Quick Hit #26
Looks like text-wrap: pretty has landed in Safari TP! Been in Chrome since 117. Let's see if Firefox follows suit.
Easy guide to writing PostgreSQL extensions
In this blog I will tell you more about PostgreSQL extensions. You will learn how to write your own PostgreSQL extensions from scratch.
The second half of software supply chain security on GitHub
Learn about a community-developed framework for how to think about this problem holistically and how to use GitHub, particularly, to improve the security in the second half of your software supply chain.
Introducing Netflix’s TimeSeries Data Abstraction Layer
As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming, the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with…
Thermal design supporting Gen 12 hardware: cool, efficient and reliable
Great thermal solutions play a crucial role in hardware reliability and performance. Gen 12 servers have implemented an exhaustive thermal analysis to ensure optimal operations within a wide variety of temperature conditions and use cases. By implementing new design and control features for improved power efficiency on the compute nodes we also enabled the support of powerful accelerators to serve
Highlights from Git 2.47
Git 2.47 is here, with features like incremental multi-pack indexes and more. Check out our coverage of some of the highlights here.
Some notes on upgrading Hugo
Some notes on upgrading Hugo
Build A Static RSS Reader To Fight Your Inner FOMO — Smashing Magazine
RSS is a classic technology that fetches content from websites and feeds it to anyone who subscribes to it with a URL. It’s based on XML, and we can use it to consume the feeds in our own apps. Karin Hendrikse demonstrates how to do exactly that with a static site you can use as your personal RSS reader.
How Supabase increased signups through the Vercel Marketplace
Supabase increased signups through the Vercel Marketplace
Enhance your website's security with Cloudflare’s free security.txt generator
Introducing Cloudflare’s free security.txt generator, empowering all users to easily create and manage their security.txt files. This feature enhances vulnerability disclosure processes, aligns with industry standards, and is integrated into the dashboard for seamless access.
How A Bottom-Up Design Approach Enhances Site Accessibility — Smashing Magazine
You can’t overstate the importance of accessible website design. By the same token, bottom-up philosophies are crucial in modern site-building. A detail-oriented approach makes it easier to serve a more diverse audience along several fronts. Making the most of this opportunity will both extend your reach to new niches and make the web a more equitable place.
Navigating Web3 dynamism: Ledger's solution to traffic spike stability with Vercel
Catching Up on the WordPress 🚫 WP Engine Sitch
Editor's note: This post is updated from time to time to catch up with notable developments. For timely updates, check out mullenweg.wtf or the less-anti-Matt
How students teamed up to decode 2,000-year-old texts using AI
Students used GitHub Copilot to decode ancient texts buried in Mount Vesuvius, achieving a groundbreaking historical breakthrough. This is their journey, the technology behind it, and the power of collaboration.
How open source AI can improve population estimates, sustainable energy, and the delivery of climate change interventions
Data for Good at Meta is open-sourcing the data used to train our AI-powered population maps. We’re hoping that researchers and other organizations around the world will be able to leverage these tools to assist with a wide range of projects including those on climate adaptation, public health and disaster response. The dataset and code […]
Serverless servers: Efficient serverless Node.js with in-function concurrency
Building a compute layer that is highly-optimized for interactive workloads, server-rendering, and APIs
How Cloudflare auto-mitigated a world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack
Cloudflare’s DDoS defenses have automatically and successfully detected and mitigated a 3.8 terabit per second DDoS attack — the largest attack on record — as part of a month-long campaign of over a hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks.
Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public!
We’re pleased to announce that the litigation against Sable has finally concluded on terms that we believe send a strong message to patent trolls everywhere — if you bring meritless patent claims against Cloudflare, we will fight back and we will win.
Quick Hit #25
Tab Atkins-Bittner left a comment in our recent notes on the CSS Masonry that thoroughly (and helpfully) counters the view that masonry would be more powerful
Leading the way: 10 projects in the Open Source Zone at GitHub Universe 2024
Let’s take a closer look at some of the stars of the Open Source Zone at GitHub Universe 2024 🔎
React at Meta Connect 2024
At Meta, React and React Native are more than just tools; they are integral to our product development and innovation. With over five thousand people at Meta building products and experiences with React every month, these technologies are fundamental to our engineering culture and our ability to quickly build and ship high quality products. In […]
Interview With Björn Ottosson, Creator Of The Oklab Color Space — Smashing Magazine
Go behind the scenes with Björn Ottosson, the Swedish engineer who created Oklab color space, and discover how he developed a simple yet effective model with good hue uniformity while also handling lightness and saturation well — and is “okay” to use.
Vercel WAF upgrade brings persistent actions, rate limiting, and API control
New capabilities reduce effects of DDoS attacks and enhance traffic control
Impact of Verizon's September 30 outage on Internet traffic
On Monday, September 30, customers on Verizon’s mobile network in multiple cities across the United States reported experiencing a loss of connectivity. HTTP request traffic data from Verizon’s mobile ASN (AS6167) showed nominal declines across impacted cities.
What's so great about PostgreSQL v17?
PostgreSQL v17 has been released. If the list of new features does not inspire you, this article will try to change your mind.
Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
Figma on Figma: Our approach to designing UI3
Overhauling Figma’s interface meant reimagining how designers work. Here’s how we shaped UI3 by balancing user feedback with our vision for the future.
Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researcher @imrerad
For this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to feature another spotlight on a talented security researcher who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program—@imrerad!
Terminal colours are tricky
Terminal colours are tricky
Let the network tell you where you are: a nerd snipe story
How We Generated Millions of Content Annotations
With the fields of machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) continuing to rapidly evolve and expand, it has become increasingly important for innovators in this field to anchor their model development on high-quality data.
Introducing Stripe’s new API release process
Our new release cadence and versioning system combines twice-yearly major updates with monthly feature enhancements, giving you the predictability and clarity that you need to better plan your engineering cycles.
Wrapping up another Birthday Week celebration
Recapping all the big announcements made during 2024’s Birthday Week.
Code referencing now generally available in GitHub Copilot and with Microsoft Azure AI
Announcing the general availability of code referencing in GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Azure AI, allowing developers to permit code suggestions containing public code matches while receiving detailed information about the match.
The nuances and challenges of moderating a code collaboration platform
Sharing the latest data update to our Transparency Center alongside a new research article on what makes moderating a code collaboration platform unique.
Crows, Ghosts, And Autumn Bliss (October 2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Could there be a better way to celebrate the beginning of a new month than with a collection of desktop wallpapers? We’ve got some eye-catching designs to sweeten up your October. Enjoy!
Expanding Cloudflare’s support for open source projects with Project Alexandria
At Cloudflare, we believe in the power of open source. With Project Alexandria, our expanded open source program, we’re helping open source projects have a sustainable and scalable future, providing them with the tools and protection needed to thrive.
AI Everywhere with the WAF Rule Builder Assistant, Cloudflare Radar AI Insights, and updated AI bot protection
This year for Cloudflare’s birthday, we’ve extended our AI Assistant capabilities to help you build new WAF rules, added new AI bot & crawler traffic insights to Radar, and given customers new AI bot blocking capabilities.
Reaffirming our commitment to free
We want to make abundantly clear: our free plan is here to stay, and we reaffirmed that commitment this week with 15 releases across our product portfolio that make the Free plan even better.
Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here’s an early look
We’ve been working on something new — a platform for running containers across Cloudflare’s network. We already use it in production, for AI inference and more. Today we want to share an early look at how it’s built, why we built it, and how we use it ourselves.
Quick Hit #24
Wired: "The combined weight of these legal cases threatens to crush the Internet Archive. The internet has entrusted its collective memory to this one
Aggregating my distributed self
Miriam Suzanne's in the middle of a redesign of her personal website. It began in August 2022. She's made an entire series out of the work that's worth your
Some Go web dev notes
Some Go web dev notes
How To Manage Dangerous Actions In User Interfaces — Smashing Magazine
One of the main laws that applies to almost everything in our lives, including building digital products, is Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Our goal is to prevent things from going wrong and, if they do, mitigate the consequences. In this article, Victor Ponamarev explores different strategies for preventing users from making mistakes.
Accelerating developer velocity and creating high-impact web teams
Transforming team dynamics by shifting focus from infrastructure management to innovation and delivering value.
Builder Day 2024: 18 big updates to the Workers platform
To celebrate Builder Day 2024, we’re shipping 18 updates inspired by direct feedback from developers building on Cloudflare. This includes new capabilities, like running evals with AI Gateway, beta products like Queues and Vectorize graduating to GA, massive speed improvements to KV and Workers AI, pricing simplifications, and bringing key features from Pages into Workers.
Startup Program revamped: build and grow on Cloudflare with up to $250,000 in credits
Cloudflare’s Startup Program now offers up to $250,000 in credits for companies building on our Developer Platform. The program relaunch uses clear and predictable credits so that you can easily see how usage impacts future pricing.
We made Workers KV up to 3x faster — here’s the data
Today, we’re announcing up to 3x faster KV hot reads, with all KV operations faster by up to 20ms. And we want to pull back the curtain and show you how we did it.
Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object
Traditional cloud storage is inherently slow because it is accessed over a network and must synchronize many clients. But what if we could instead put your application code deep into the storage layer, such that your code runs where the data is stored? Durable Objects with SQLite do just that.
Cloudflare’s bigger, better, faster AI platform
Whether you want the fastest inference at the edge, optimized AI workflows, or vector database-powered RAG, we’re excited to help you harness the full potential of AI and get started on building with Cloudflare.
Making Workers AI faster and more efficient: Performance optimization with KV cache compression and speculative decoding
With a new generation of data center accelerator hardware and using optimization techniques such as KV cache compression and speculative decoding, we’ve made large language model (LLM) inference lightning-fast on the Cloudflare Workers AI platform.
ktls now under the rustls org
What’s a ktls I started work on ktls and ktls-sys , a pair of crates exposing Kernel TLS offload to Rust, about two years ago . kTLS lets the kernel (and, in turn, any network interface that supports it) take care of encryption, framing, etc., for the entire duration of a TLS connection… as soon as you have a TLS connection. For the handshake itself (hellos, change cipher, encrypted extensions, ce
GitHub Copilot now available in github.com for Copilot Individual and Copilot Business plans
With this public preview, we’re unlocking the context of your code and collaborators—and taking the next step in infusing AI into every developer’s workflow.
Kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Researcher spotlights and additional incentives!
For this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, GitHub’s Bug Bounty team is excited to offer some additional incentives to security researchers!
Boost your CLI skills with GitHub Copilot
Want to know how to take your terminal skills to the next level? Whether you’re starting out, or looking for more advanced commands, GitHub Copilot can help us explain and suggest the commands we are looking for.
Thoughts on working inside a data center suite
Cloudflare partners with Internet Service Providers and network equipment providers to deliver a safer browsing experience to millions of homes
Cloudflare is extending the use of our public DNS resolver through partnering with ISPs and network providers to deliver a safer browsing experience directly to families. Join us in protecting every Internet user from unsafe content with the click of a button, powered by 1.1.1.1 for Families.
Cloudflare helps verify the security of end-to-end encrypted messages by auditing key transparency for WhatsApp
Cloudflare is now verifying WhatsApp’s Key Transparency audit proofs to ensure the security of end-to-end encrypted messaging conversations without having to manually check QR codes. We are publishing the results of the proof verification to https://dash.key-transparency.cloudflare.com for independent researchers and security experts to compare against WhatsApp’s. Cloudflare does not have access t
PGDay Hyderabad 2024 Reflections
In this blog, I would like to tell you more about PGDay Hyderabad 2024. It was my first PostgreSQL conference in India. Find out more...
Building a better First Draft for designers
We’re reintroducing our Make Designs feature with some key improvements, including a new name—First Draft